"The next morning the mountaineer coolies arrived, and a strange ill-favoured race they are. In their high cheeks, lon…"

"…Colonel Young, who is the chief man here, commands a most interesting native regiment, the Gourkas. I should say the…"

"They are ' said to have come originally from Rajputana, whence they fled early in the fourteenth century, after the c…"

"You would, my Arabella, be enraptured at the extreme neatness of even the meanest attendant; but besides the beauty a…"

"Cleanliness was literally next to godliness in India; hygiene was not, as Anatole France thought it, la seule morale,…"

"A surprising spirit of cleanliness is to be observed among the Hindoos: the streets of their villages are commonly sw…"

"The Brahman usually washed his hands, feet and teeth before and after each meal; he ate with his fingers from food on…"

"Purity means cleanliness of mind and body; the latter is effected by the use of water etc. No nation in the world is …"

"For their part, Indians and Asians considered Westerners puzzlingly dirty. To some extent, it was a matter of merocri…"

"At a time when the British showed no particular enthusiasm for cleanliness, Indian women for example introduced Briti…"